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| 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful By This review is from: Toshiba Satellite C870-11H 17.3 inch Laptop (Intel Core i3-2350M 2.3GHz, 4GB RAM, 640GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium, USB 3.0) (Personal Computers) The laptop was straightforward to start up. The package included quickstart instructions and the installed software includes the instructions as a .pdf. I am hardly an expert, to put it mildly, and had no problems installing Windows 7. But you do have to be careful about options and not go merrily along accepting the recommended options: supplied software is full of trash and there is the dreaded Windows update to consider. Why Toshiba boast about quickstart I cannot imagine: if you tick for auto updates from Windows and Mcafee it takes ages to boot up. Despite the free month I uninstalled Mcafee and installed Microsoft Security Essentials (free). I also was not tempted by the awful Office 10 as I have Office 2003.The C870 is thin, very thin, and this means no connections at the back, all crammed onto the sides and just the card slot at the front. There is not a catch for shutting the screen either; the screen is almost as heavy as the base and you have to be careful how you... Read more 16 of 25 people found the following review helpful By Mrs J. L. Phillips (Frinton on Sea, Essex, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase( What is this?) This review is from: Toshiba Satellite C870-11H 17.3 inch Laptop (Intel Core i3-2350M 2.3GHz, 4GB RAM, 640GB HDD, Windows 7 Home Premium, USB 3.0) (Personal Computers) It is not possible to write a review of this item, as I have yet to discover what to do with it. I am astounded that that despite being adept with a laptop, I am left tired, puzzled and disappointed and have decided to wait until I have time during the summer holidays before I try to use it.When I last bought a new iron for the princely sum of �19.99, I had in the box a complete guide of how to use the product, what its features were, a trouble-shooting guide even. I bought this item for �469.00 - not a sum to be spent lightly, and there was nothing in the packing to tell me how to use the laptop. Apparently, I'm told, I could pay to get some sort of handbook. I am no technophobe, but I do regret having bought this item. It really isn't good enough to spend this amount of money and be left having to do things by trial and error. I consider that I cannot use this item to its fullest capacity as I do not understand sufficiently what it can do. Should it really be encumbant on... Read more |